On Sunday, 6 April 2025, World Sport Day, the streets of Milan city filled with participants in the Milano Relay Marathon, a major event combining sport with solidarity. The Bracco Foundation’s contribution to the day was to call attention to the crucial issue of support for young women keen to study STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Type: Science
In view of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina and coinciding with the month dedicated to women’s rights, on Wednesday 19 February at Palazzo Marino in Milan, the Bracco Foundation, in partnership with the Municipality of Milan, Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 and the International Olympic Committee, presented the results of the first national-level study of the media coverage of the Paris 2024 Games from a gender perspective, which was accompanied by a photographic exhibition featuring women champions and experts from the world of sports.
Ahead of National Week for STEM disciplines, the exhibit “Life as a scientist” was presented at the Chamber of Deputies, during a conference dedicated to “professions of the future”, hosting leading institutional and scientific figures. The photographic exhibition illuminates the faces and careers of some of Italy’s greatest female scientists.
In connection with the project #100esperte centred on women experts across a range of fields, the Order of Journalists of Lombardy, ISPI and the Bracco Foundation are organizing a seminar for journalists on the US presidential election that is also open to members of the public.
On Wednesday 3 July 2024, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano (“Cattolica”University) hosts “Towards the Equality Olympics”, a symposium dedicated to the theme of equal opportunities in sports journalism, which is highly topical in view of the imminent Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in which, for the first time, an equal number of male and female athletes will participate: 5,250.
The Bracco Foundation and Centro Diagnostico Italiano (CDI), in partnership with Accademia Teatro alla Scala, are sponsoring an event that, under the title “Colpo di Scena – Storie di professioniste che mai avreste immaginato” (‘Plot twist: Stories that you could never have imagined from women professionals’) explores the presence and the standing of women in the workforce.
Fondazione Mai is promoting a “Women in STEM” event at the headquarters of Assolombarda (Via Pantano 9, Milan). The event takes place on Wednesday 7 February 2024 from 11 a.m.
In the following pages you will find a bird’s eye view of the Bracco Foundation’s activities in 2022.
On Wednesday, 29 November, at 3:00 p.m., at the headquarters of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) in Rome, a presentation will take place of “100 women experts for sport.”
Contributing to the activities contemplated by the Pavia Capital of Business Culture project, the Bracco Foundation has joined forces with Assolombarda for the Steamiamoci project that includes a photography show titled “Life as a Scientist” (running from 22 September to 30 November 2023 at the Collegio Santa Caterina da Siena).